Top 10 Developer Tool Categories
Welcome to the Dev Direct Top 10 developer tool and software component categories - our most visited categories over the last 30 days. This list is updated every weekday morning.
| 1. Barcode - Use these controls to create, print, view, detect, and read barcodes from within your applications. Our range of barcoding products cover all of the major barcode symbologies. The barcoder component page contains barcode components for all platforms including .Net, Java, COM/ActiveX and VCL. |
| 2. Calendar, Date & Time - ActiveX calendar controls enable users to enter dates and times easily with drop down calendars, clocks, day, month, week, year views and date selectors. These controls are ideal for all calendaring and scheduling applications. |
| 3. Email - The Email page lists all Email components, controls, libraries and objects for .Net, ASP.NET, ActiveX, Java, Delphi. Our Email products cover Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP3) and Internet Messgae Access protocol (IMAP4). We have products for both client and server ends of the connection. |
| 4. File Handling - Perform a varietry of file manipulations using these components. From simple file enumerations, copy and rename type commands to file comparison and file property access. |
| 5. File Upload/Download - The file upload/download page lists a complete set of ActiveX Components, Controls, libraries and objects that enable the transfer of files using HTTP and FTP protocols. File transfers can be performed from web pages to a server or from host to host both securely and using compression. |
| 6. Graph & Chart - A guide to the available ActiveX/COM graphing and charting controls to help you to build applications that produce charts and graphs from statistical, finincial, engineering, scientific and other numeric data. These components can produce all types of business and scientific graphs and charts, including: Line graphs, bar charts, scatter graphs, polar charts. For organisation, flow and workflow diagrams, see Diagrams, Diagramming. |
| 7. Grid - ActiveX Grid Controls and Datagrid Components for windows COM developers. The standard grid control in VB6 isn't all that powerful, 3rd party grid controls feature customizable layout, heirarchical data organisation, row and column grouping, data binding, data caching, sorting, subtotaling, parent/child one-to-many relationships. ActiveX grids also provide specific look and feel emulation such as Outlook, Access and Excel. |
| 8. List Controls & Combo Boxes - Below we have compiled a list of all known ActiveX list boxes and combo boxes. List control and combo box controls extend the native listbox components with capabilites like multi column data, large data set support and auto completion of text. |
| 9. PDF - ActiveX PDF Controls and PDF COM libraries can be used to rapidly add PDF capabilites to your solutions. Use these APIs when building document management systems or when producing output in a standard, interchangeable format. Create PDFs to email documents or save them to disk. |
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